The Children

Description

To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre- occupations. You cannot anticipate him. Blackbirds, overheard year by year, do not compose the same phrases; never two leitmotifs alike. Not the tone, but the note alters. So with the uncovenated ways of a child you keep no tryst. They meet you at another place, after failing you where you tarried; your former experiences, your documents are at fault.

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Other Editions

• The childrenJ. Lane1897-01-01
• The ChildrenEBookeBooksLib2005
• The childrenJohn Lane, the Bodley Head1897-01-01
• The childrenJohn Lane, Bodley Head1897-01-01
• The childrenJ. Lane1897-01-01
• The Children (Dodo Press)PaperbackDodo Press2007-08-24